The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-11-26
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contributed last year to its ministerial re.
lief fund $118,83O cash.
The st. Louis conference of the Meth.
odist Episcopal church, South, at it's last
session adopted resolution declaring
the signing OF petitions for saloons incon-
slstent with the obligations of church
membership.
In the fremont Temple Bible class re-
Gently an adult pupil asked instructor
GEORGE W. GABLE whether he didn't
think that the extension Of divine forgive
ness to the impenitelt was potential rath-
or than actual. To which Mr.. GABLE
could only reply. IL wouldn't say that to
children"
The North British Review, the organ
OF Scotch orthodoxy, once said-and the
words should be heard now in connection
with the future probation controversy
1T Is lmpious to suppose or proclaim. for
the sake Of swelling missionary finds.
that the heather will perish because they
know not the gospel of Christ"
PROFESSOR EeBERT c. SMYrH, in the
Supreme Court for Essex, Mass, recent
ly filed the appeal from the decision. of
the board of visitors OF Andover, remoy-
ing him from the professorship The
court ordered writ of certiorari to COM
mand the board to produce all things re-
lating in the case to issue December /.
"PFssIMIsTs, as regards this world and
skeptical as to any other, the Russians"
says the Saturday ReUieac, "are melan-
choly race. Their utter acquiescence in
hopelessness is at times almost abiect.
Their 'world-grief' is crushing in it's ef-
feet on daily life, and it makes their lit
erature, In so far as their literature re-
fleets it, extraordinarily depressing"
GOVERNOR BoDwE1n, of Maine, is quo
ted by the AdUdnce as saying that he is
trying to enforce prohibition in that
State and approves the law, but he finds
it the biggest job he ever undertook,
The law is fairly we'll enforced in the ru.
raj districts and receives the support of
the community, but in the larger cities
and towns liquor men defy it, and the 10.
cal authorities connive at it.
In the series of "Symposiums on Cues
tons in Theology and Life" which
THOMAS WHITTAKER, the New York pub
Usher, is ISIS ing, there will appear i'm. !,
mediately, two new additions. One deals
with Evolution" and the relation of that
doctrine to various theological dogmas.
and the other is on "Non- Christian Reli-
gions" and their relation to Christianity.
Both volumes are contributed to by lead
ing minds in the various religious bodies
of Great Britain.
The Legislature of Wisconsin has
made it a'criminal offense to kill or catch
"for a milliner" any robin, sparrow.
thrush, blue-bir swallow, cat-bird,
king bird, wood-pecker. flicker, pigeon,
dove, blackbird, wren, finch, lark, pewet,
oriole, humming- bird, bunting, grackle,
grosbeak, warbler, fy-catcher, swift, wax.
wing, chichodee, creeper, goRt-sucker,
tanager, or whip-poor-will. Legislation
as to the bonnet wearers Of dead birds
has not yet commenced.
"THE world" firmly says the Evanqel
ist, sis not dying for the want of finished
orators, or the sight of troop Of boys
trailing in white. The world is not dy
ing for want of few bird-like trills in
sacred song nor for sonorous chime of
bells high in q costly tower. The world
is dying for want of the everlasting
truth of God In stern, authoritative testi-
mony against the wickedness of men, and
the experience that there is complete for.
giveness in Christ"
ONE paragraph in the will of the late
SYLvANUs COBB, the novelist and journ-
alist, ran: sand 1 do set it down as nv
express desire that no member of my fam
lily or relative or friend shall for me put
on, at any time, any outward badge of
Let no blackness of Grape or
funeral weeds cast its gloom upon my
would that my beloved ones
should seek the brightness and fragrance
Of faith and trust in God rather than the
gloom that belongs to doubt and unrest.
go to find more light. Add ye not to
The darkness who remain behind. God
bless you ALL"
DIR. SAMUEL Cox supplies a delight
July fresh and suggestive article on the
proverb: "a word fifty spoken is like ap-
pies OF gold in pictures OF silver" For
nerly he turned from this saying with
liscontent and aversion. Its metaphor
seemed grotesque and uncouth. "Mas-
i've apples of gold in any conceivable
framework of silver would furnish forth
! very heavy and loaded style Of orna-
nent, offensive to all artistic taste" But
low he has learnt, from Neil's Palestine
Explored" that "apples of gold" is a
'oetic name for the orange in more than
me Eastern tongue. "It the gold of the
'roverb is figurative, why SHOULD not the
liver be fgurstive also, and point TO the
reamy white blossoms of the orange
rec? Take it so, and the proverb at once
as true to nature as if is beauti-
n in itself For the orange tree is one
the faV trees which hear hIorooro ond